2-710-880 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Australian Gunners on the Gallipoli Peninsula', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'Australian gunners, stripped for the fray, working a cleverly concealed gun...The colonial contingent by their deeds of unparalleled bravery won undying glory for the over-seas Dominions, and posterity will read with awe and wonder of the heroic sacrifices made in their fight for the mother country.' The Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey saw heavy fighting, with many casualties on both sides. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. IV, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]